Connect:

As part of the total conference "experience" we have planned for you, we will be featuring screens around the conference site displaying CONGREGATE, our real-time feed application. It will be showing incoming feeds from flickr, Twitter and CrowdVine related to the conference.

This will be a fun way to create a virtual conference space as well as a physical one, but we'll need your help at the conference! Get familiar with these applications now and you can be ready to add content when you hit the ground in Savannah.

A quick primer...
FLICKR: You need an account (free) then tag photos with "interaction08". Practice doing this from your mobile phone, so we can get the freshest content.

TWITTER: You need an account (also free). Follow the group Interaction08 http://twitter.com/interaction08. Sending a message to interaction08 from your computer, or texting "#interaction08" and then a message to short code 40404 will send a message to the feed.

CROWDVINE: Just keep doing what you're doing and it will get there. We'll be showing blog posts and comments.

I look forward to seeing you on CONGREGATE!